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emains of other vertebrates) was reported in Higgins (1975, Conodont zonation of the Late Visean-early Westphalian strata of the south and central Pennines of northern England. Bull. Geol. Surv. of Great Britain, 53, 1-90). Day trip to the Natural History Museum, London. Leader: Giles Miller. A visit to one of the world's best known museums; an opportunity to go behind the scenes and examine conodont collections, including material deposited by Hinde, Higgins and large collections donated by Austin. For more information go to: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/conodonts/. Friday July 21 Workshop: Conodont Bodies and Skeletons. An opportunity to examine and discuss specimens preserving conodont soft tissues and articulated skeletons, including much of the best material from around the world. Excursions Pre-meeting Excursion: The Carboniferous of Ireland July 12 – 16/ 2006 Leader: George Sevastopulo This field trip will focus on Mississippian (Carboniferous) rocks of the Dublin Basin and Hook Head, County Wexford. The Dublin Basin provides sections (mainly coastal) of the late Tournaisian (in a shelf/ramp setting) and all of the Visean (in both basinal and shelf settings). The basin/shelf margin is preserved and the sedimentology of both shelf and basinal carbonates (and less abundant siliciclastics) is exciting. Conodonts occur at many horizons together with foraminiferans and macrofossils. Current research activity includes identification of the Tournaisian/Visean boundary in both shelf and basinal settings. Hook Head provides a spectacular section from early Tournaisian redbeds and shallow marine carbonates and siliciclastics through progressively deeper water limestones and shales (youngest part of the Polygnathus communis carina Zone in the highest preserved beds). Conodonts from Hook Head were described by Johnston and Higgins (1981; Conodont faunas from the Lower Carboniferous rocks at Hook Head, County Wexford, Journal of Earth Sciences of the Royal Dublin Society, 4, 83-96). Post-meeting Excursion: Iapetus - from coast to coast July 22 – 27/2006 Leaders: Howard Armstrong, Robert Raine & Paul Smith This fieldtrip will take the form of a transect across the Caledonide mountain belt of Scotland and northern England or, in palinspastic terms, a coastline to coastline traverse across Iapetus. The trip will commence by looking at the Ordovician-Silurian succession in the Lake District, including an examination of the Ashgill in its type area. It will then cross the Scotland-England border, marking the leap from Avalonian to Laurentian crust, with the next stops at deep water Ordovician localities in the Southern Uplands,where current controversies over the tectonic interpretation of the Southern Uplands and Midland Valley terranes will be discussed. Crossing the Midland Valley of Scotland, the Neoproterozoic Dalradian Supergroup will be traversed from the Highland Boundary Fault, where obducted Ordovician ocean floor and islands with shallow water Laurentian conodont faunas can be seen at Dounans, north to the Great Glen fault and Loch Ness. We will then continue northward across the Moine thrust belt, where Neoproterozoic metasediments are thrust over the Laurentian foreland, to end the trip on the shoreline of Laurentia at the classic Cambro- Ordovician sections in Durness. In addition to providing the opportunity to sample conodont localities described by Higgins, Bergström, Ethington, Lindström, Armstrong and Orchard, the trip will also consider the history of geological exploration in this region, together with current interpretations and controversies regarding the margins of Iapetus, its constituent terranes and the final closure of the ocean in the Silurian. Mark Purnell and Philip Donoghue Department of Geology Department of Earth Sciences University of Leicester University of Bristol University Road Wills Memorial Building Leicester LE1 7RH Queens Road UK Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK Tel +44 116 252 3645 Tel +44(0) 117 954 5440 7
Topical Session, 2006 Annual Geological Society of America Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. October 22-25, 2006 Symposium On Geochemical Aspects of Conodonts to be a part of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sponsors: Pander Society, Paleontological Society, Geochemical Society Symposium Title: AN APPETITE FOR APATITE: CONODONT-BASED GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY Co-Chairs: J.R. Morrow, D.J. Over, M. Elrick Conodont microfossils, a premier tool for high-resolution biostratigraphic correlation and biochronology, are becoming increasingly important in diverse geological and geochemical studies seeking to unravel the history of critical paleoceanographic, paleoclimatic, biotic, and paleotectonic changes from the Late Cambrian through the Triassic. This multidisciplinary session will highlight current research emphasizing new innovative and quantitative uses for conodonts in a wide variety of geological applications, including isotopic, trace metal, rare earth element, geochronologic, organicchemistry, paleotemperature, event stratigraphic, diagenetic, and tectonic research. Any submission incorporating new or innovative uses of conodonts within the fields of geochemistry, biochronology, paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, event stratigraphy, or tectonics would be welcomed. The session will include both oral and poster formats. The GSA electronic abstract submission deadline is July 11/ 2006, and the meeting dates are October 22-25, 2006. See also: http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2006/index.htm For more information, please contact Jared Morrow (jared.morrow@unco.edu), Jeffrey Over (over@geneseo.edu), or Maya Elrick (dolomite@unm.edu). (Submitted by Jared Morrow) Carboniferous Conference Cologne 2006 - From Platform to Basin. A Research and Field Conference in the Mississippian of Germany September 4-10/2006 sponsored by SEPM-CES Please see: http://www.ccc2006.uni-koeln.de For further information, contact Hans-Georg Herbig Universität zu Köln, Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie AG Paläontologie und Historische Geologie Zülpicher Strasse 49a, 50674 Köln, Germany Tel. 0049-221-4702533; Fax 0049-221-4705080 Homepage of Palaeontology Group: http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geomin/palaeo.html Homepage H.-G. Herbig: http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geomin/herbig.html (submitted by Hans-Georg Herbig) Proposal for Pander Society Symposium and Field Trip at Combined North Central — South Central GSA Meeting in 2007 The Pander Society would like to meet in April, 2007 with the GSA Sectional meeting in Lawrence, Kansas. The proposed agenda includes a symposium of oral presentations and a Friday Evening—Saturday field trip designed primarily for members of the Pander Society (conodont specialists), but other geologists might well be interested in the trip. Pander Society Symposium Proposed Title: Mixed-Up Conodonts: Extracting Useful Information from Stratigraphic Leaks and Redeposited Faunas Presentations: Oral presentations preferred 8
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